Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 100m Butterfly
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	25 July (prelims, semifinals) 26 July (final)
Win Value:	50.98 seconds
Gold:	Ian Crocker
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Michael Phelps
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Andrii Serdinov
Bronzenoc:	UKR
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

See main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships.

The Men's 100 Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 25 - 26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam July 25, with the prelims during the morning session and the semifinals in the evening session. The Final^[3] was held on July 26.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both:

WR: 51.81 swum by Michael Klim (Australia) on December 12, 1999 in Canberra, Australia.
CR: 52.10 swum by Lars Frölander (Sweden) on July 26, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Time	Notes
1	50.98	WR
2	51.10
3	51.59
4	51.95
5	51.98
6	52.27
7	52.68
8	53.00

Semifinals

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	51.47	q, WR
2	S1 L6	51.76	q, WR
3	S1 L4	52.21	q
4	S1 L5	52.37	q
5	S1 L2	52.44	q
6	S2 L5	52.49	q
7	S1 L8	52.55	q
7	S2 L3	52.55	q
9	S1 L3	52.57
10	S1 L1	52.64
11	S1 L7	53.05
12	S2 L8	53.12
13	S2 L7	53.13
14	S2 L2	53.16
15	S2 L1	53.18
16	S2 L6	53.76

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	H15 L4		52.27	q
2	H15 L5		52.35	q
3	H14 L3		52.85	q
4	H14 L4		52.91	q
4	H14 L6		52.91	q
6	H15 L3		52.92	q
7	H12 L3		53.01	q
8	H13 L4		53.06	q
9	H14 L8		53.12	q
10	H13 L5		53.21	q
11	H14 L5		53.28	q
12	H15 L2		53.31	q
13	H15 L8		53.42	q
14	H15 L6		53.44	q
15	H12 L5		53.45	q
16	H15 L7		53.48	q

17	H13 L6		53.68
18	H13 L3		53.74
19	H13 L7		53.95
20	H14 L7		53.96
20	H14 L1		53.96
22	H12 L7		53.98
23	H12 L8		54.05
24	H11 L5		54.07
25	H10 L1		54.09
25	H15 L1		54.09
27	H12 L6		54.16
28	H13 L2		54.21
29	H10 L6		54.48
30	H11 L6		54.56
31	H11 L3		54.64
31	H13 L1		54.64
33	H11 L1		54.70
34	H12 L4		54.81
35	H11 L7		54.94
36	H10 L8		55.12
37	H11 L4		55.19
37	H11 L8		55.19
37	H12 L2		55.19
40	H10 L5		55.23
41	H09 L2		55.27
42	H09 L4		55.40
43	H08 L4		55.64
44	H09 L3		55.66
45	H07 L4		55.89
46	H10 2L		55.90
47	H10 L7		55.93
48	H10 L3		55.95
49	H10 L4		56.07
50	H09 L1		56.30
51	H08 L8		56.36
52	H08 L6		56.55
53	H09 L5		56.56
54	H09 L6		56.73
55	H08 L5		56.76
56	H09 L8		56.88
57	H09 L7		56.95
58	H06 L5		57.04
59	H08 L3		57.28
60	H07 L2		57.39
61	H08 L1		57.52
62	H07 L7		57.69
63	H08 L2		57.81
64	H06 L4		57.87
65	H07 L8		57.93
66	H07 L5		58.04
67	H04 L7		58.62
68	H06 L2		58.66
69	H05 L4		58.67
70	H06 L7		58.71
70	H07 L3		58.71
72	H08 L7		58.79
73	H07 L6		58.80
74	H06 L1		58.85
75	H05 L3		58.91
76	H06 L3		59.05
77	H05 L2		59.09
78	H05 L5		59.22
79	H05 L7		59.35
80	H06 L8		59.56
81	H07 L1		59.81
82	H05 L8		59.90
83	H04 L5		59.93
84	H04 L8		1:00.30
85	H02 L4		1:00.80
86	H02 L2		1:00.87
87	H04 L4		1:01.08
88	H03 L2		1:01.16
89	H03 L5		1:01.19
90	H04 L3		1:01.37
91	H04 L6		1:01.66
92	H01 L1		1:01.67
93	H05 L1		1:01.73
94	H02 L3		1:01.89
95	H03 L6		1:02.15
96	H04 L2		1:02.31
97	H03 L7		1:02.41
98	H01 L4		1:02.95
98	H03 L4		1:02.95
100	H02 L8		1:03.18
101	H02 L7		1:03.61
102	H03 L8		1:04.42
103	H05 L6		1:05.57
104	H01 L7		1:06.14
105	H02 L5		1:06.30
106	H01 L5		1:06.46
107	H02 L1		1:07.19
108	H01 L6		1:08.82
109	H01 L2		1:12.62
110	H01 L8		1:14.43
-	H14 L2		DQ
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-	Yan Lin Aung	DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100 fly - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2003-07-26.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100 fly - simis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2003-07-26.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100 fly - final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2003-07-26.